Snack foods will either make or break your healthy eating ambitions. Snacking is a natural part of life, but unhealthy snacking doesn’t have to be. By giving your snack times a little forethought and preparation, you can actually make them an opportunity to add nutrient dense calories to your system that improve your health. Here are 6 healthy snack recipes that will add a sumptuous healthy delight to your day and that you can prepare in just a few minutes. 

Working from home has become a reality for many of us over the last few years. The transition from working in an office to having an office at home brings with it many benefits. However, there are also challenges. One of them relates to exercise. Previously, you may have hit the gym on your way to or from work. But now you don’t have to leave the house at all. If you’re not careful your well cultivated workout routine can soon go out the window. Here are four things you can do to make time to workout out when you’re working from home. 

You may not realise it, but there’s a war going on inside your gut. There are about 20 billion combatants and they’re in diametrically opposed camps; good bacteria and bad bacteria.

The sad news is that, for most of us, the good bacteria are hugely outnumbered. This is largely due to the Standard Western Diet, with its emphasis on high-glycemic carbohydrates, something which bad bacteria absolutely love.

The good news is that we’re able to come to the aid of our good bacteria with the smart use of enzymes and probiotics.

Coffee, like most things, is good in moderation. When it comes to a Cuppa Joe, however, a lot of people find it difficult to moderate their coffee consumption. Excess coffee consumption can lead to such problems as anxiety, insomnia, digestive problems and energy crashes. As a result, some people decide to go cold turkey on coffee. So, what happens when you give up on coffee?

Food cravings can affect even the most nutritionally disciplined among us. Often that craving overwhelms us and, before we know it, we’re munching down on that item of food that we can’t stop thinking about. We can tend to think that food cravings are random, uncontrollable urges. The truth, however, is that food cravings have meaning. When you know what has led to your food craving, you will have the power to control it. Let’s take a look at some common cravings to uncover what causes them and what you can do to eliminate them.

Running is a type of workout that, you’d think, doesn’t need much explaining. We all know how to run (or think we do) so, surely, it’s just a matter of getting out there and doing it? Actually, there’s more to it than that. There are a lot of different types of running workouts designed for different purposes and levels of training experience. While we are stuck in lockdown, incorporate these sample outdoor running workouts for beginners, intermediate and advanced runners into your weekly routine.

You can get an effective full-body workout that hits every muscle group while also getting your heart pumping with nothing but the body you were born with. Here is a simple 5 exercise workout that you can do right now to start getting your sweat on at home.

When it comes to achieving your workout goals, nutrition is the key. What you fuel your body with before, during and after your exercise session is going to determine whether your hard work pays off or not. In this article, we break down what you should eat before, during and after your workout to fuel your body for optimal gains.

When the days get colder, the sun disappears and the rainclouds gather, it can become a lot harder to motivate yourself to maintain your exercise habit. With proper preparation, however, you can successfully negotiate your way through winter without losing a step in your workout momentum. Here are 5 tips to help you do just that. 

Gaining muscle is a simple, but challenging, process. Despite all of the contradictory information and myriad ideas about working out, eating and supplementing to pack on muscle, the most successful route to gaining muscle is to keep it basic and consistent. In this article, I’ll provide you with an overview of everything you need to know in order to start adding some serious muscle to your frame.

While more and more people are exercising, a recent survey shows that most of them are doing so to look better rather than to improve their heart health. Most of those surveyed were unaware of just how much and what type of exercise they should get each week for maximum cardiovascular benefit. While 51% of those surveyed said they exercise to lose weight, just 32% stated that they do so to improve their heart health.

We have known the benefits of tea for a long time but recently we’ve seen a new star arise on the scene - Matcha. This version of tea is booming thanks to its antioxidant and neuroprotective benefits. In this article, we reveal everything you need to know about Matcha so you can decide if it’s for you.

Let’s face it - sustaining our motivation to workout can be a challenge. That’s why we need to be constantly feeding our minds with positive reinforcement to break out of our procrastination and get us moving. In this article, I’m going to provide you with 9 of the most inspirational fitness quotes you’ll ever come across. These come from the mouths of some of the greatest coins in the fitness industry. If these don’t get you pumped for your workout, you might want to check your pulse!

We all know that we need to eat more vegetables but which ones should we prioritise? In this article, we list the 7 best vegetables that should be part of your diet, as ranked by the nutritional value to your body.

During your 20’s, you are in the golden zone for establishing fitness habits that will last you a lifetime. This is the decade that you should be beginning to take your health a bit more seriously. You most likely don’t yet have the responsibilities that come with children and a mortgage. That makes it the ideal time to cement in those good habits so that, when greater life’s pressures come, they are already ingrained. Here are 5 fitness habits to build into your life during your 20s.

Burning fat is hard work. Most of us have spent a lifetime accumulating excess body fat so we shouldn’t expect to be able to get rid of it overnight. Successful fat loss is a combination of caloric restriction, cleaning up the diet by cutting out simple carbohydrates and smart exercise. In this article, we will focus on the exercise side of the equation.

There are literally hundreds of exercises you could do to lose body fat. What you need to do is identify the handful that will give you the best bang for your buck in terms of caloric burn and the degree to which the exercise boosts your metabolism after your workout. The four exercises to follow have been proven to be the most effective moves to accomplish both of those objectives.

Has your default energy level become stuck in first gear? Does it feel as if you get up and go got up and left long ago, never to return? If you’re feeling sluggish, the problem will largely have to do with what you are, or are not, eating. After all, food is our only energy source. In this article, we present 7 tips on how to eat to restore your lagging energy levels.

Meal plans involve setting a plan for how you will eat over the course of your week. It is often used by people who are trying to lose weight. However, getting into the meal planning habit can be beneficial to all of us. Here are 8 reasons why you might want to consider taking up the meal planning habit.

Going vegan is trendy these days. That’s thanks in no small part to the popularity of the Netflix documentary ‘The Gamechangers’, which featured a number of high profile athletes, including strength athletes, who had ‘gone green’, apparently with amazing results. Along with the rush to ditch the meat, however, have come some serious reservations from nutritionists and dietitians. In this article we take a look at some of those concerns and present 4 reasons why going vegan might not be a game-changer after all.

In their quest to boost their fitness, millions of people jump onto the treadmill, and then proceed to mindlessly pound away and tune out. The truth is that most of them are getting nowhere, literally. Not only are they physically staying in the same place, but their fitness isn’t progressing. The reason is simple – they aren’t working hard enough.There is a better way. You’ve probably heard of high-intensity interval training. It’s been around for over a decade, but it has become hugely popular in the last few years. HIIT started out as a method of running on the track, but is now being applied to all sorts of types of training, including bodyweight and resistance exercises. In this article, we will focus on how you can apply HIIT training to your treadmill workout.